My inspiration to become a teacher and my inspiration to get involved with science stemmed from two different people. I wanted to get involved with education because my grandmother, mother, sister and aunt are all teachers. My mother taught for 32 years and was always happy with her job. She stayed in the Cranston School department, but went from teaching second grade, to being a middle school guidance counselor, to being an elementary school guidance counselor and finally spent her last 18 years as a DPT for 6 different elementary schools. She has always expressed to me the importance of having quality teachers in the system and what a positive impact they can have on a child's life. I would see that frequently when no matter where we went in the state, someone would recognize her, such as another professional or better yet parents who remember having her as a teacher.
Knowing that I wanted to be a teacher I was still unsure of which route to go. I wanted to get involved in something that would keep changing and updating and would have endless possibilities. Science classes were never easiest for me but when I had a certain teacher for Biology in high school, my interest was sparked. Mrs. Meyers taught freshmen honors biology and she was one of my first positive experiences in high school in general. She never just lectured she had a million and one ways to represent the different topics. There were games and demonstrations and applications that did not "dumb the course down" but actually made it more challenging and creative. She never took the easy way out and simply lectured, and I appreciated that greatly. She inspired me to hopefully do the same. Also, she was involved with the students as the 2007 class adviser, so I was able to remain close with her and consult her for all four years of high school. This showed that she did not only care about the content but also the students that she taught. She offered advice on how to study and how to prepare yourself for the rest of high school, which is important to do as a freshmen teacher working students through a transition year. In this way she also inspired me to not only teach science, but to be a reliable teacher for students to trust and come to when they need something.
This is fairly general, and yet brief. Who was your teacher? What did your mother teach?
Knowing that I wanted to be a teacher I was still unsure of which route to go. I wanted to get involved in something that would keep changing and updating and would have endless possibilities. Science classes were never easiest for me but when I had a certain teacher for Biology in high school, my interest was sparked. Mrs. Meyers taught freshmen honors biology and she was one of my first positive experiences in high school in general. She never just lectured she had a million and one ways to represent the different topics. There were games and demonstrations and applications that did not "dumb the course down" but actually made it more challenging and creative. She never took the easy way out and simply lectured, and I appreciated that greatly. She inspired me to hopefully do the same. Also, she was involved with the students as the 2007 class adviser, so I was able to remain close with her and consult her for all four years of high school. This showed that she did not only care about the content but also the students that she taught. She offered advice on how to study and how to prepare yourself for the rest of high school, which is important to do as a freshmen teacher working students through a transition year. In this way she also inspired me to not only teach science, but to be a reliable teacher for students to trust and come to when they need something.
This is fairly general, and yet brief. Who was your teacher? What did your mother teach?